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Roland Gesthuizen

1 in 4 College Textbooks Will Be Digital By 2015 - 0 views

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education ebook textbook publishing

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 20 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • the success of the iPad has fueled the consumption of digital content in general. But the iPad has also spawned a number of new digital textbook companies
  • Washington State's Open Course Library project, a program that aims to make core college materials available on the Web for less than $30 per class
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 20 Mar 11
     
    "we have reached the tipping point for e-textbooks, and the Xplana predicts that in the next five years digital textbook sales will surpass 25% of sales for the higher education and career education markets."
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 20 Mar 11
     
    Interesting to read the move to make core college materials available on the web for minimal cost.
Roland Gesthuizen

Will iBooks Author Create A Wave of Self-Published Teachers? | Wandering Academic - 0 views

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iBooks2 author prosumer education eBooks Pages ibooks

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 29 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • But lo, there is a tool for the Mac that makes iPad-friendly books, allows you to print and share individual pages of a book, and allows for handwritten notes. It doesn’t, like iBooks, allow the author to update all the readers with a newly edited copy, but copy-paste will work just fine. It’s called Pages. For the teacher who self-publishes, Pages is the better, more flexible tool for now.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 29 Jan 12
     
    As with anything Apple, the recent education-themed announcement has everyone dreaming of a better future for the children, and all that. The question you keep reading is "will e-textbooks change the face of education?", just like people asked about the iPad when it first came out. And while I'm very impressed by the design of the new textbooks available on iBooks 2, and I love the fact that they include touchable animations and videos to supplement text, the books themselves don't seem revolutionary.
Roland Gesthuizen

Report Cards Are In: So Did the iPad in the Classroom Make the Grade? | Hack Education - 1 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 22 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • tablets — the hardware, the apps, the digital textbooks — will get more student-friendly in coming years
  • the Penn State English department views this fall’s iPad experiment “a success,” and Selber says that department instructors are interested in more iPad implementations.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 22 Jan 11
     
    Following the launch of the iPad last spring, many schools made headlines by announcing their plans to distribute the devices to teachers and students and to incorporate the iPad into coursework. Now that the fall term is over, several of those schools are reporting on what was, for many, the first full semester using iPads in the classroom. So does the iPad make the grade? If so, will it usher in a new wave of educational tablets as some analysts are predicting?
Roland Gesthuizen

Welcome to Nelson Information Technology - Cengage Learning - 1 views

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publisher book student teacher resource IT ITA VCE

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 04 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Students can access extensive online self-testing material that includes multiple-choice questions written for each chapter.
  • Teachers can access all of the student material, as well as sample SACs, practice exams for each unit, and the solutions to all of the questions in the book. An annually updated list of recommended software for completing assessment tasks, and links to relevant and free open-source software are also included.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 04 Feb 11
     
    "Welcome to Nelson Information Technology" - A website for a text book publisher.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 04 Feb 11
     
    Publish the VCE IT and ITA textbook.
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